Posted on 09/16/2004 1:48:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A RECENT story that didn't get nearly the attention it deserved was the New York Daily News report that 46,000 registered New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida. Nearly 1,700 of them have had absentee ballots mailed to their home in the other state, and as many as 1,000 have voted twice in the same election. ...........
It is illegal to register to vote simultaneously in different jurisdictions, but scofflaws have little to worry about. As the Daily News noted, "efforts to prevent people from registering and voting in more than one state rely mostly on the honor system." Those who break the law rarely face prosecution or serious punishment. It's easy -- and painless -- to cheat.
I learned this firsthand in 1996, when I registered my wife's cat as a voter in Cook County, Ill., Norfolk County, Mass., and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and then requested absentee ballots from all three venues. My purpose wasn't to cast illegal multiple votes but to demonstrate how vulnerable to manipulation America's election system has become.
It was a simple scam to pull off. "Under the National Voter Registration Act -- the `Motor Voter Law' -- states are required to accept voter registrations by mail," I wrote at the time. "No longer can citizens be asked to make a trip to town hall or the county office. No longer do they have to provide proof of residence or citizenship. In fact, they don't have to exist. Motor Voter obliges election officials to add to the voter list any name mailed in on a properly filled-out registration form. Anyone so registered can then request an absentee ballot -- by mail, of course. The system is not only open to manipulation, it invites it."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
There always has been fraud.
We'll just have to be dilgent and confront problems.
It will always be a fight we must wage.
I don't know. maybe social insurance cards should have a magnetic strip that can be swiped. That way a person can only vote once. We have the technology, and it wouldn't be hard to implement it.
I know. The left is so ignorant.
If this is not stopped, the nation will not stand. I know some voter fraud has always existed but this is too much!
Hillary wants the Electoral College to go bye-bye and to not have people's I.D.s checked at the polls.
How many of us would volunteer in our state to check the records of every absentee ballot to determine whether the person had voted twice? Also, to check to see whether the person was an existing human, a cat or whatever? I would.
That's the one! Most Republicans are honest as we can see.
68% of democrats are felons. those are almost the same numbers as democrat senators who are felons, LoL (joking, I think)
Look at the To - Its a removed post. Was a troll.
It's a fact of life. There do need to be safeguards.
We can only be so diligent and still have free elections.
The answer this year is to wipe the floor with them.
That's an amazing statistic - do you perchance have a source?
10 whacks with the silly stick to me! Didn't see your "(joking)" until a second read...
And, this is as true now, as it was in 1992, 1996, 2000, and will be true in 2008.
A point though.
Hillary will be running in 2008. And, perhaps, 2004.
I would too.
46,000 registered New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida
What are their names and addresses?
My opinion?
NO real numbers.
Probably any election that is "close" - 1% maybe - is threatened win/loe by fraud. Above that?
So far, they can't pull it off.
Ck Post #26.
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